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I see Sean's beard has leveled up a couple times over the course of his ordeal.

And honestly, at this point I'd just play The Outer Wilds if I wanted that kind of experience. It seems to deliver on the same beats as NMS (seamless space exploration, ancient alien mysteries, See That Planet? You Can Fly There, etc.) but on a smaller and more meticulously-crafted scale:

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So I bought NMS sky after it first launched, around $20 I think, it was after the hype and then massive backlash. At $20 I got the game and was running around, collecting stuff, crafting fuel, travelling to other planets, going into space stations, talking to aliens, trying to learn their language, and going further to the center of the universe. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. I got bored after a couple of times doing this, as there was nothing to really motivate me to keep playing.
Then the updates came in, you could build other crafts, you could build your own house, so I started playing again, and had fun for about 2 more hours, then I got uninterested. With this latest update, what has really changed? Am I still just doing endless fetch quest? Are there still mobile game wait times for certain entities within the game? So I have to wait 2 hours before I talk to a science officer to progress his story line further? Are the aliens still stagnant, repeatable entities, that have no character or personality?
I am glad they are still working on this game, and if people like endless fetch quest then more power to them, but to anyone asking what the point of the game is, I don't think there is much of one. Not story wise at least. It is just a somewhat endless universe of repeatable planets, filled with plants and animals that you can harvest and then craft. It is fun for a few hours, then just becomes very stagnant.

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Well in Minecraft I can build all kinds of things. Just being creative with the tools available. Like building an underwater translucent metro network, floating castles or making an exact replica of your own house. I feel like you can do a lot more fun stuff in Minecraft.

You sort of choose what you want to do with the game. Do the story/center of universe thing or go explore or go build a base or assemble a massive fleet, etc. Honestly, I end up taking a ton of screenshots in the game.

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You sort of choose what you want to do with the game. Do the story/center of universe thing or go explore or go build a base or assemble a massive fleet, etc. Honestly, I end up taking a ton of screenshots in the game.

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I'm one of the few who thought this game was good at launch. I platinumed it, but haven't touched it since then. If the VR impressions are favorable, I might just have to start a new playthrough in VR.

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I'm one of the few who thought this game was good at launch. I platinumed it, but haven't touched it since then. If the VR impressions are favorable, I might just have to start a new playthrough in VR.

I think improving and expanding trading and giving some story based missions on top would go towards recreating the fun I had with Starflight even more... NMS looks like a product of love and passion and K wish for it to keep getting expanded and cannot wait to see a next generation update!!!

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Still needs a lot of work if they didn't polish/upgrade the core mechanics of the game. I hope they start polishing and making more interesting changes to the environment hazards, weapons, crafting, trading, maybe ship building? Also the scanner/beacon repetition cycle is terrible.

Game is lacking big time on those departments.

Needs living cities, abandoned planets with ruins of civilizations, some kind of artificial intelligence on NPCs, maybe make them gather, reproduce, just keep expanding by themselves as (real) time goes by. Things worth exploring. Procedural is great but some hand crafted stuff hidden in the universe might go a long way as a search by the players. Just some big misteries, etc.

Maybe make it a player based economy, with materials more rare and not everybody rich with little effort.

Yeah I'm just going off the top of my head but the game needs a lot of work.

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Funny how media shills love Sean Murray just because he did not give up on the game and sure that's a good thing HOWEVER the game will never be what they wanted or promised. There really is no sense of exploration or enjoyment of exploring different planets, they're all the same at their cores or basic gameplay and there really is no story or lore that will make you want to explore. They've added functionality to the game and you can build stuff and have friends with you but that is it and its something we've seen done a million times. If you want to feel rewarded for exploring in a story/lore kind of way just get Subnautica and if you want to build stuff and feel proud about it get Minecraft.

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Funny how media shills love Sean Murray just because he did not give up on the game and sure that's a good thing HOWEVER the game will never be what they wanted or promised. There really is no sense of exploration or enjoyment of exploring different planets, they're all the same at their cores or basic gameplay and there really is no story or lore that will make you want to explore. They've added functionality to the game and you can build stuff and have friends with you but that is it and its something we've seen done a million times. If you want to feel rewarded for exploring in a story/lore kind of way just get Subnautica and if you want to build stuff and feel proud about it get Minecraft.

Or if you want a bit of both get NMS which with its VR expansion and constant tweaks to the procedural creation engine is leading to vastly different planets and ecosystem and immersing yourself in VR mode just makes it more special.

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Never played the original but I this looks and sounds amazing and I have a lot of respect for the developer.
I'm especially excited to consume some hallucinogens and play this in VR tripping out of my mind.

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Psyched for this. Don't care for VR but 32 players, larger bases, more activities? Count me in! Might do a fresh start permadeath for this.
It's pretty obvious who in this thread has already given the game a chance after all the updates so far, and who hasn't. Not that anyone has to give it a chance, or a second chance in some cases, but it's pretty immature to keep shit-talking the game in news threads when you yourself haven't even played the game in its current state. Don't want to play it? Fine, no skin off my nose...but there's no need for you to post about how you don't want to play it.

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Nope. Not gonna bite. I don't like procedural generated "worlds". I think it's a bad game design choice. With designers designing every aspect of a level, there's signature, a soul behind it's creation. It doesn't always work out well, but at least there's the signature of somebody who worked on it.

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Nope. Not gonna bite. I don't like procedural generated "worlds". I think it's a bad game design choice. With designers designing every aspect of a level, there's signature, a soul behind it's creation. It doesn't always work out well, but at least there's the signature of somebody who worked on it.

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I hadn't played this since a couple of weeks after release. Next didn't bring me back...but somehow I think this might. It's really the first game I felt would be exponentially better in VR. Sadly I don't have a VR headset, but I still might give this another shot. I still own it.

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I'm hoping this all evolves into a bigger multiplayer experience. One where the economy and factions are all shaped by the players. Where groups of players can build and defend strongholds and mining colonies. I know that is probably not going to happen, but it would be truly amazing if it did.

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Or maybe some people like different gameplay than you? Is NMS an action packed game? Not at all, but that doesn't make it boring. There is a ton of fun and wonder to be had in NMS and the more they integrate multiplayer, those things become more compelling to experience with friends and now even strangers.

Personally I see this game as having endless potential if they continue to update it. My only fear is that at some point they need to turn to a profit generating model or they will be unable to.[/QUOTE]

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Well in Minecraft I can build all kinds of things. Just being creative with the tools available. Like building an underwater translucent metro network, floating castles or making an exact replica of your own house. I feel like you can do a lot more fun stuff in Minecraft.

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but 32 players are just in that Nexus area that you can see no ? people who allready played it VR online they says its 3 more players that you can play together on missions and such . so its 4 player coop more or less. where then that 32 players numbers comes in?